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Charges were filed Tuesday against a Mexicali, Mexico, man accused of coordinating a smuggling run that ended with the deaths of 13 Mexican and Guatemalan nationals crammed in an SUV with more than a dozen others.

Imperial County has confirmed the identities of 13 SUV passengers killed in a crash last Tuesday shortly after the vehicle and another SUV breached the border wall.

More than a dozen people were killed on Tuesday morning after an SUV collided with a truck near the U.S.-Mexico border in California’s Imperial County.

Accelerated program will allow Culinary, Pastry and Hospitality students to earn 2-year Associates Degree in one year.

The accelerated program at El Centro College will allow Culinary, Pastry and Hospitality students to earn 2-year Associates Degree in one year.

A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been charged with using homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and making them panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week.

Leaders of an Imperial Valley church are accused of promising homeless people shelter and instead stripping them of their rights and forcing them to work for up to nine hours a day.

An appeals court upheld on Wednesday a freeze on Pentagon money to build a border wall with Mexico, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s ability to make good on a signature campaign promise before the 2020 election. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented...

President Donald Trump is moving fast to build a wall on the Mexico border with billions of dollars secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts. On Friday, a federal judge in Oakland heard arguments in two lawsuits seeking to block the White House from spending money from the Defense and Treasury...

The number of migrant families and children entering the U.S. from Mexico is so high that Border Patrol is immediately releasing them instead of transferring them to the agency responsible for their release, forcing local governments to help coordinate their housing, meals and travel. “We need to work toward a clean sweep,” Border Patrol Deputy Chief of Operations Richard Hudson...

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced Thursday it is releasing migrant families without criminal backgrounds into the Yuma, Arizona community due to high numbers of people entering the country. The families will be offered temporary housing, food, medical care and help with traveling to their intended destinations, the Yuma mayor said.

Four U.S. Marines were killed when a military helicopter crashed near El Centro, California, officials confirmed Wednesday.

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the four Marines killed when their helicopter crashed Tuesday during training runs near El Centro, California.

The Trump administration on Tuesday waived environmental laws and other reviews to replace a small stretch of border wall in Calexico, California, the second time it has exercised that authority in less than two months. Critics said the move was an overreach and a threat to the environment. The waiver extends 3 miles (5 kilometers) west from the downtown border...

A woman who recognized a man from church talked him down from a 160-foot radio tower in Hollywood Wednesday after the spectacle stopped rush-hour traffic and jammed Sunset Boulevard for hours.